Year 5 Engish Unit Plan Fourteen Wolves

This resource provides a comprehensive Year 5 English MTP (Medium Term Plan) based on the text Fourteen Wolves by Catherine Barr. This 2-week plan is designed to help students write a non-chronological report about the importance of wolves at Yellowstone Park.

What’s Included?
The plan includes a variety of suggested activities for both reading and writing, with a strong focus on inference and understanding non-fiction texts. Students will have the opportunity to:

Reading Activities: Students will be encouraged to read for a range of purposes, make predictions, and infer the feelings, thoughts, and motives of the animals and characters. They will also learn to identify when they lose understanding and how to repair it.

Writing Activities: The plan focuses on teaching students how to organize paragraphs around a theme and use simple organizational devices such as headings and subheadings. They will compose and rehearse sentences orally, building a rich and varied vocabulary.

Vocabulary and Grammar: The resource provides a suggested vocabulary list with both Tier 2 and Tier 3 words. It also outlines key grammar objectives, including main clauses, subordinate clauses, relative clauses, and parenthesis.

This resource is an excellent tool for teachers who want to deliver an engaging non-fiction unit that develops advanced reading and writing skills, while also exploring themes of ecology and interdependency. A list of supplementary reading texts is also included.